Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aging Henry Armstrong, 31, onetime triple champion; his first big fight after his second retirement; by knocking out Al ("Bummy") Davis in the second round; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden...
...intercollegiate tennis interests will be represented by Don S. Willner '47 and Ed L. Slater '47, when they participate in the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Championship Matches at Elizabeth, New Jersey, tomorrow through Sunday. Francisco "Pancho" Segura, the bow-legged Ecuadorian with the mean two-handed forehand, is the defending champion. He is currently enrolled in Miami College...
When the Ottawa Rowing Club unveiled its honor roll last week the name of one of its greatest scullers, the onetime single sculls champion of Canada and North America, was covered with adhesive tape...
...Mickey") Sullivan, the townsmen's testy champion, was once kicked in the pants by undergraduates. But last week's racial out break was something new and ominous in Harvard's experience...
...bating of most of last year's varsity veterans, retained because the Services have not depleted Tech ranks as heavily as they have those of the Crimson, will count for M. I. T. In the Annapolis regatta Tech finished second in a dead heat with Navy, the undisputed champion crew season, but in the Cornell race lost of a length to Navy on a two mile course...